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Biddeford, communal privileges in, 390.
Bier, in weaving, 220.
Birch-bark, doors of, 6; plates of, 83; baskets of, cans of, 253, 310.
Birch broom, making of, 301-303; price of, 302.
Blackjacks, 95-96.
Blazing, of trees, 330.
Bleaching, of flax thread, 175; of linen, 234; of straw bonnets, 261.
Bleeding-basins, 86.
Block-houses, 26.
Boards, scarcity of, 76.
Board cloth, 76-77.
Boardman Hill House, 22.
Bobbins, for weaving. See Quills.
Bobs, of flax, 168.
Bombards, 96.
Books of etiquette, 79.
Bore-staff of loom, 224.
Boston, fire-engine in, 19; early houses of, 19, 27; first fork in, 77; pigeons in, 110; fish in, 123; tea in, 164-165; coffee in, 165; chocolate in, 165; spinning schools in, 180; fulling-mill in, 187; dress in, 292-294; coach in, 331; stage-travel from, 350-351; night watch in, 363; meeting-houses in, 364, 366; restrictions of settlement in, 394; cows in, 400.
Bottles, of wood, 82; of pewter, 85; of gla.s.s, 92-93; of leather, 95.
Boucher, Jonathan, quoted, 382.
Bouncing-bet, 427, 447.
Bounty coats, 248.
Bouts, in weaving, 218.
Box-borders, a plea for, 430-431.
Boxing, of maple trees, 112.
Boylston, Nicholas, banyan of, 294.
Boys, clothing of, 287-288; wigs of, 297; seats in meeting for, 372 _et seq._; misbehavior of, 372-373; in church, 384.
Braid-loom. See Tape-loom.
Bradford, Governor, quoted, 129-130.
Bread, white, 147; rye and Indian, 147
Bread-peel, 67.
Breadtrough, 311.
Breakfast, or bread and milk, 148.
Breaking, of flax, 169-170; of hemp, 170.
Breaking out the winter roads, 412 _et seq._
Breweries, in New York, 161.
Brewster, Elder, quoted, 117.
Brick, imported, 21.
British spinning and weaving school, 186.
Broach, 198.
Brooklyn, oysters in, 118-119; salting shad in, 124-125.
Brooms, of broom-corn, 256-257; of birch, 301-304; of hemlock, 304-305.
Broom-corn, 256-257.
Brown University, dress of first graduating cla.s.s, 183.
Bucking, of flax thread, 175; of linen, 234.
Bull's-eye lamp, 45.
Bun, of flax, 169.
Bunch-thread, 251.
Bundling-mould. See Shingling-mould.
Burlers, in weaving, 252.
